Memories of Hollow Bastion

[xemichal]

Xemichal appeared in the doorway of Merlin's house, out of breath. "Yuffie! Shut the door!" He exclaimed as he glanced at the closing door with malice. "There was something following me!" He said quickly, despite the puzzled looks on thier faces.

The door burst open as Cloud came into the house. His face tensed when he saw Xemichal's robe. "Organization XIII!"

Xemichal frowned, "Yes I'm part of the Organization, but I didn't come here to hurt you Cloud." Xemichal smiled broadly at the group. "'member me?" Xemichal asked as his Keyblade appeared in a bright flash of light. "No? Well then, I'll give ya a hint, I'm the son of Ansem."

Smiles of realization graced the faces of everyone in the room, even Cloud and Leon. "Michael?" Aerith asked, too astonished to believe it.

"Yes and No," Xemichal said, "I'm his Nobody, I met my half-brother on Destiny Islands then was killed by a Heartless."

Leon was looking at Xemichal with scrutiny. "Sora is Ansem's other son?" He asked, usure of wether or not this being was telling the truth.

"Ya, and we got Keyblade's, that is, Michael and me."

"So what are you here for?" Cloud asked, frowning deeply.

Xemichal looked hurt. "I can't just pop in and say, 'Hi' to my old childhood friends?" He asked.

"Answer the question!" Cloud yelled.

Xemichal put his hands up in surrender. "I wanted to see some information on my father's computer. Before he went AWOL, my father was working on destroying the Heartless and Nobody's in our world, I wanted to finish his work to help you guys out."

The other's still looked unsure.

[xemichal]

Although Cloud and Leon didn't trust him, they allowed him into Ansem's secret computer room.

"All I need is to pull up the file, then finish it in his study." He looked back at the untrusting faces behind him. "Why do you guys not trust me?" He asked.

Aerith and Yuffie looked a bit uncomfortable with the question, but Leon answered. "You're part of the Organization." His face grew tense, "Now a question for you, If you're a Nobody, then doesn't that mean Michael's dead?"

Xemichal grinned at them. "Oh no, he's alive, just forgot everything about this place, as we speak, he is regaining his memories in a place called Castle Oblivion."

[xemichal]

With that, the others followed him to his father's secret facility. He walked up to the computer and started typing. As he fluently waved his hands over the keyboard, several screens popped up with years of his father's research in it. He read a few lines of the research and started typing again. His eyes flew across the screen as he read it. He pressed enter and inserted a disk. A loading bar popped up and was gone in a few short seconds. The disk popped out and Xemichal grabbed it, letting it slide down his sleeve. A few keystrokes later, the Heartless manufactuary roared to life as it spewed out one shadow Heartless. Xemichal sent Leon to retrieve it, "But DO NOT harm it." He said.
Leon came back with the Heartless in the cage. Xemichal typed in a few commands and the computer spit two disks out. Xemichal gave one to Cid and kept one for himself.
"I'll be back later," He said as he disappeared into the darkness.